help fiscal_impoverishmenty Sean Higgins

The fiscal_impoverishment package includes the following commands. (There is no fiscal_impoverishment command; this help file is simply to let the user know what commands are included in the package.)

fi_fgp calculates the measures of fiscal impoverishment (FI) and fiscal gains to the poor (FGP) from Higgins and Lustig (2016)

fi_fgp_grpah graphs FI and FGP curves from Higgins and Lustig (2016)

Author

Sean Higgins, UC Berkeley, seanhiggins@berkeley.edu

References

Higgins, Sean and Nora Lustig. 2016. "Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?" Journal of Development Economics 122, 63-75.